A collection of FidoNet messages dating from 1993-1999, scraped by Josh Renaud in 2015-16 from message boards "frozen in amber" on two BBSes.
The largest set consists of more than 300,000 messages scraped in 2015 from FidoNet message boards on ExecPC BBS. The earliest messages in this set were posted in Nov. 1993 in a Ross Perot echo. ExecPC's connection to FidoNet seems to have gone down in June or July 1998. A handful messages were posted by local ExecPC users after that until Sept. 1999.
The second, smaller set, consists of around 1,200 FidoNet messages scraped from the Starfleet HQ BBS in 2016. These message come from three Atari ST-related FidoNet echoes and date from Sept. 1995 - Jan. 1996.
These messages were scraped through the telnet text interfaces of two BBSes. The files are not FidoNet messages packets, nor are they any standard FidoNet message format.
Rather, these are just ASCII text files, appearing as they would have appeared to a user connected to the BBS, scrolling through the echoes. The message board / echo names are truncated, so it may be difficult to map some of them precisely to known FidoNet echoes.
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